- Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper
Taxobox
name = Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Aves
subclassis =Neornithes
infraclassis =Neognathae
superordo =Neoaves
ordo =Passeriformes
subordo =Tyranni
infraordo =Tyrannides
superfamilia =Furnarioidea
familia =Furnariidae
subfamilia =Furnariinae
genus = "Lochmias"
genus_authority = Swainson, 1827
species = "L. nematura"
binomial = "Lochmias nematura"
binomial_authority = (Lichtenstein, 1823)
subdivision_ranks =Subspecies
subdivision =6, see textThe Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper ("Lochmias nematura") is a
passerine bird ofSouth America belonging to the family Furnariidae, the ovenbirds. It is the only member of thegenus "Lochmias".This bird is about 6 in (15 cm) long, with a short tail and a long, thin, slightly curved bill. The plumage is dark brown, densely spotted white on the underparts. There is a white stripe over the eye and the tail is blackish. The song is an accelerating trill, lasting for about five seconds.
There are six
subspecies which differ little:
*"Lochmias nematura castanonotus" - south-eastVenezuela
*"Lochmias nematura chimantae" - southern Venezuela
*"Lochmias nematura nelsoni" -Panama (eastern Darién)
*"Lochmias nematura nematura" - south-eastBrazil , north-eastArgentina , easternParaguay , northernUruguay .
*"Lochmias nematura obscuratus" -Peru ,Bolivia
*"Lochmias nematura sororius" -Colombia ,Ecuador , northern Venezuela, north-east PeruIt inhabits dense undergrowth near streams, particularly in
humid premontane andmontane forest [Salaman "et al." (2002)] , foraging on the ground forinsect s and otherinvertebrate s [de L. Fávaro "et al." (2006)] . It usually occurs alone or in pairs and is often shy and hard to see. Thenest is ball-shaped with a side-entrance and is built on the ground.Footnotes
References
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* (2006): Efeito do gradiente altitudinal/latitudinal sobre espécies de aves florestais da família Furnariidae na Bacia do Rio Tibagi, Paraná, Brasil [Effect of altitudinal/latitudinal gradient about forest ovenbirds species (Aves: Furnariidae) in the Tibagi river basin, Paraná, Brazil] . [Portuguese with English abstract] "Revista Brasileira de Zoologia" 23(1): 261–266. doi|10.1590/S0101-81752006000100020 [http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbzool/v23n1/a20v23n1.pdf PDF fulltext]
* (1978): "A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela". Princeton University Press.
* (1989) "A Guide to the Birds of Panama with Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras". Princeton University Press.
* (2002): New and noteworthy bird records from the east slope of the andes of Colombia. "Caldasia" 24(1): 157-189. [http://www.unal.edu.co/icn/publicaciones/caldasia/24(1)/240111.pdf PDF fulltext]External links
* [http://www.xeno-canto.org/browse.php?query=Lochmias%20nematura&lang=eng Xeno-canto: Song and calls of the Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper]
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